Sentence examples similar to a sufficient pretext from inspiring English sources

Castile's car had a faulty brake light, giving the 29-year-old officer a legally sufficient pretext for pulling him over, several experts testified.

It will give Israel no sufficient pretext to reinvade Gaza, where Hamas's army of 6,000 men can operate openly; will appeal to the world's Muslims for support; and will blame Israel and Washington for every deprivation.

Remorse is a sufficient motivator.

Absolution is a sufficient objective.

What is a sufficient number?

Building a sufficient customer base.

Build a sufficient customer base.

But this conceit is, thankfully, only a conceit, a pretext to revel in the details.

The court held today that even in the absence of concrete evidence of discrimination, proof that the employer's explanation is just a pretext can itself be sufficient proof, either as circumstantial evidence or as the basis for an inference that discrimination was the real reason.

In contrast, food inspectors cannot use their authority to inspect a restaurant kitchen as a pretext for searching the lockers of restaurant employees.

A year later, Iraq is no longer a pretext or an abstraction.